text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Insects and Japan Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Insects and Japan Goto page 1, 2, 3 Next Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Japan View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message funkygingJoined: 06 Jan 2011Posts: 45 Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:21 pm Post subject: Insects and Japan Whats your opinions on these pesky buggars? I was reading a blog which goes into some details on what ones to watch out for but from people who have lived there for a number of years it would be interesting to hear your feedback. Do you have any horror stories of a huntsman jumping at you? Getting bit by the Mukade? getting chased by the suzumebachi? Coming home to find a house full of cockroaches? If yes to any of these questions how did you deal with them or prevent future occurances? Coming from Scotland we don't exactly have anything big or poisonous to worry about. The only thing we do have are midgies and perhaps an aggressive old lady with a handbag laden with bricks =D link to blog --> http://zoomingjapan.com/life-in-japan/insects-and-other-pests/ Back to top Mr_MonkeyJoined: 11 Mar 2009Posts: 661Location: Kyuuuuuushuuuuuuu Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:02 pm Post subject: The mosquitoes are a pain in the arse and the cicadas can shut the hell up, but it's not exactly like people die here from diseases which are transmitted by insects do I don't really care that much. I'm allergic to the mosquitoes here, so the midges in Scotland don't seem so bad, at least now... Back to top funkygingJoined: 06 Jan 2011Posts: 45 Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:38 pm Post subject: That sucks being allergic to them. The only issue i have is they always go for me, even when there is 5 people sitting around me its only me that gets bit. If only ladies were as attracted to me as mosquito's were! =D Back to top rxk22Joined: 19 May 2010Posts: 1629 Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:14 pm Post subject: Depends on where you live, and the quality of your housing. I had slugs in my apt in Chiba. In the areas with many a rice paddy, the mosquitoes will be pretty bad. The Mukade seem to like warmer climates more, so if you're up north you won't as many. The evil wasps seem to be in the woods more than anything. Same with the leeches. Back to top funkygingJoined: 06 Jan 2011Posts: 45 Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:12 pm Post subject: ah i should have mentioned i will be staying in ibaraki prefecture =) Back to top ApsaraJoined: 20 Sep 2005Posts: 2142Location: Tokyo, Japan Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:36 pm Post subject: My mother was bitten by a mukade on her last visit- right in the middle of Shinjuku somewhere. I've been here 14 years though and had never seen a live one before. Much more common if you're in rural areas though. Once out of the central cities you get quite big spiders which like to build webs across paths in autumn, but they aren't the jumping type or poisonous, just not fun to walk into their webs accidentally. We see suzumebachi around from time to time (I live in west central Tokyo), but have managed not to get stung. The occasional cockroach isn't unusual in summer in and around Tokyo (that includes Ibaraki) even if you live on a higher floor in a new building and clean regularly. Older buildings can be quite infested- I lived in a gaijin house years ago where the kitchen was horrific, they were everywhere you looked. Our house is 18 years old and had been empty a few months when we moved in last year so we had to deal with a few of them- putting a few of the little black poison traps around the house soon got rid of them though. Back to top TokyoLizJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 1548Location: Tokyo, Japan Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 4:52 am Post subject: I lived in west Shikoku the first year here. Spiders as big as your hand, mukade in the laundry basket, fleets of suzumebachi, and snakes. Ibaraki isn't that bad for bugs. Skeeters are the biggest issue. Tokyo has four-footed, furry, tailed pests. I stay with a friend in Suginami-ku sometimes. I don't get much rest because of the rat jamboree in the walls. Shibuya and Shinjuku are really bad for rats. Back to top ApsaraJoined: 20 Sep 2005Posts: 2142Location: Tokyo, Japan Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 6:09 am Post subject: Funny, I was in Shibuya ward today and just after I walked out of the station (not Shibuya station itself but a few stations out) I walked past the hugest dead rat outside an izakaya. Haven't seen any of them inside luckily. A few months ago I saw a tanuki run across the road near where we live, which isn't far from Shinjuku. I've seen them further out in the western suburbs as well. Back to top steki47Joined: 20 Apr 2008Posts: 1029Location: BFE Inaka Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:51 am Post subject: My wife was bitten by a centipede but it wasn't too serious. I found the mosquitoes obnoxious as they buzz around the bedroom as I'm trying to sleep. Or fly into my eye when I am cycling. Low hanging spider webs suck, too. Back to top funkygingJoined: 06 Jan 2011Posts: 45 Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 10:37 am Post subject: Found a yougube video that alleviates some of my fears of huntsman spiders =D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCO56iyBXtU Back to top Rob1209Joined: 15 Jan 2012Posts: 36 Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 11:58 am Post subject: Huntsman spiders used to terrified me for the first 2 weeks that I lived in Australia. And then when you're removing 2-3 of them from your house every day you kind of get used to them. It's not true that they won't bite you though. I know someone who was watching a movie on the sofa with the lights out, when he felt what he thought was a rubber band on the sofa arm. He was rolling it around in his fingers for a good while, until it suddenly bit him. He turned on the light, and sure enough it was a huntsman. So they can bite you, but you'd have to seriously piss one off for an extended period of time for it to do so. And all he felt was a bit of swelling and soreness for a couple of days. Not dangerous at all. Also, huntsman are really easy to catch if you use the right technique. if you see one on the wall/ceiling, get a large bowl (preferably see-through) and approach the spider really slowly. Lower the bowl over the spider really slowly and press it against the wall. Do it slow enough and the spider won't even move a millimetre. Then slide your paper/card underneath and take it outside. If you try to snap the bowl against the wall and beat the spider with speed you'll have no chance. At best it'll be so quick you miss completely, at worst you'll catch it one the move and chop off it's head/legs in the process. Back to top funkygingJoined: 06 Jan 2011Posts: 45 Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 6:10 pm Post subject: Good info Rob! I found a few pretty cool post about how to deal with huntsman spiders http://www.mdavid.com.au/spiders/huntsmanfear.shtml http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/The-Huntsman-Spider-287250.html Looking at some of the different spiders in Australia, the rest of the world really should be thankful! lol http://www.termite.com.au/spider-identification.html Back to top robinnnJoined: 24 May 2006Posts: 83Location: Spain Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 2:47 pm Post subject: I lived in the countryside for 2 years and never even saw a live mukade. I met Japanese people who lived in the country their entire lives and didn't even realise mukade were poisonous. They really freaked me out though. Back to top G CthulhuJoined: 07 Feb 2003Posts: 1373Location: Way, way off course. Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 3:27 pm Post subject: rxk22 wrote: In the areas with many a rice paddy, the mosquitoes will be pretty bad. I never once, in seven years in Japan and living in small towns, saw a mosquito. Lavae & adults wouldn't survive the hundreds of thousands of frogs. If they're around then it isn't in the rice paddies! Back to top ApsaraJoined: 20 Sep 2005Posts: 2142Location: Tokyo, Japan Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:20 pm Post subject: Can't talk about areas with rice paddies, but here in west Tokyo the mosquitoes are plentiful and vicious- my legs are covered in bites right now because I can't even step outside the door to get the mail without attracting a swarm of biters. Mosquito coils are one of the quintessential summer images here because the mosquitoes are so bad- you're very lucky not to have been bothered by them, G Cthulhu. 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Nurse: "He had a seizure this morning. Dr. Stevens came by an hour ago, and thought it was from the antibiotic."
Dr. Grumpy: "Hmmm... Why is he in the hospital in the first place?"
Nurse: "Dr. Stevens? Uh, I think he was making rounds."
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
hee hee - sounds like something i'd say just to piss off someone!
Rumack: You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
Elaine: A hospital? What is it?
Rumack: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.
Haha, awesome!
You know, with the doctors you always talk about.. she may have had to answer that exact question before and just did it out of habit, lol.
Anon- Yeah, I thought of calling the post "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
Or she could have said,"hospital?!"
and you could have replied, "Yes, it's a big building with patients in it,but that's not important right now".
I'm definitely making the right career choice to be a Dental Hygienist rather than a nurse than right? Because I just don't know that I would be able to handle that. I have little patience for dull knives.....
What is scary is that the nurse thinks she answered your question and was being helpful.
The scary state of nursing care in hospitals these days....As a nurse, isn't it part of her job to know....(just my thoughts as a nurse)
Kim, yes. You'll be thinking "open your mouth and shut up!!" a lot, but dental hygienist is an excellent career choice.
She was probably nervous to talk to you, Grumpy, because OMG you're a DOCTOR! SCARY!
Yeah, that's right!
These doctors and the questions they ask.
Seriously, what did you expect Dr. Stephens to be doing at the hospital? Playing golf?
I'm afraid Nurse K's got it right.
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The Samsung Galaxy S was one of the most popular Android handsets last year. In some aspects, it still is. The handset did have its fair share of controversy with a non-usable GPS and the Froyo update delay.
The back of the Galaxy S sports a 5MP camera with Auto-Focus and face detection. Earlier, the Auto-Focus used to work only while clicking pictures. However, recently Samsung released an app on the Samsung Apps' store called the Camera Firmware Update.
The application updates the firmware of of the camera and enables continuous auto-focus while recording videos.
Below is a video shot from the Galaxy S which shows the auto-focus feature :
The picture and the video quality taken from the camera remains the same. Galaxy S owners can download the application from here. Users are warned not to uninstall this app once they update the camera firmware of their handset. The app works on rooted Galaxy S handsets, as well as one running on Custom ROMs.
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At the 1979 Dutch Grand Prix, Ferrari hotshot Gilles Villeneuve drove what must simultaneously be the most hilarious and most heroic lap of Formula One history. It all began with a rear tire puncture.
The elder Villeneuve's particular brand of Québécois madness needs no introduction, but lap 51 of the 1979 Dutch Grand Prix is a class act of its own.
After leading most of the race and setting fastest lap, the left rear tire of his Ferrari 312T4 blew up on the beginning of the lap, causing him to spin out. A lesser driver — make that everyone in Formula One — would at this point have climbed out of the car and shuffled back to the pits, but not Villeneuve.
Definitely not Villeneuve. What he did instead was fire up the Ferrari, get back on the tarmac in a tractor-happy spray of gravel, and proceed to create the greatest act of insane performace art in racing history. Yes, there is video, in which there are sparks:
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I have read many posts on virtual hosting but did not find any that indicated they had tried to install on a Cobalt RAQ server. I have a back up server that I would like to try it on but am a little confused on where to start. The Cobalt is fairly Dummy proof on it's own. I would like to be able to host and rune the Zimba server from the same machine. is this a reality? I am very impressed with the demo and am sure that clients would be also. I read the basic install instructions but it was still foggy to me if it would be possible.
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Emotional eating is misunderstood and often unnecessarily demonized. However, emotional eating — that is, eating to feel good, often termed "compulsive eating" — isn't the problem. It's emotional overeating and mindless emotional eating that can be both psychologically and physically unhealthy. Emotional eating works as a coping strategy and stress reliever if approached with mindfulness and moderation.
Emotional Eating Is Inevitable
Whether you eat or overeat, whether you eat mindfully or mindlessly, one thing is clear: people only eat what they like to eat. How a particular food tastes is a fundamentally emotional consideration. Let's face it: your body doesn't give a hoot whether you eat something that tastes good or not so good, as long as the food isn't rotten. Taste is the business of the mind — a matter of pleasure. Bottom line: Everyone eats for pleasure, so emotional eating is inevitable.
Emotional Eating Is Coping
Aside from emotional eating to feel good, some of us also eat to cope — that is, to reduce emotional distress. Eating for pleasure or eating to reduce daily stresses are two sides of the same coin but our all-or-nothing minds divide this indivisible coin in half. On one hand, we are encouraged to slow down and enjoy the food we eat. On the other hand, we are told by popular culture to never eat for emotional reasons. If this sounds like hypocrisy, it is. Any pursuit of well-being is simultaneously a reduction of distress.
Why Emotional Eating Works
There are several good reasons why emotional eating is so appealing as a coping strategy.
- Eating is oral coping: From day one, feeding has been a default parenting intervention and the pacifier has been our first coping tool. Eating to relieve oral tensions — for example, after quitting smoking — is an intuitive soothing choice.
- Feeding is caring:Many cultures explicitly equate feeding with caring. Remember grandma's home-baked chocolate cookies after a hard day at school?
- Meal time is support time. Family meals are a family ritual, and at their best are a time of togetherness, an opportunity for social relating and belonging and as a means to emotional well-being.
- Eating is grounding. Eating is a ritual, and as such, it's comforting in its predictability. Eating is a sensation-rich, unambiguously physical activity. As such, eating is an effective reality check at a time of uncertainty or confusion, a behavior that grounds and centers a busy or overworked mind.
- Eating is relaxing. From the physiological perspective, a choice to eat can be seen as an attempt to directly manipulate the nervous system, by switching on the part of our wiring that is associated with relaxation and rest.
Leveraging More Coping Per Calorie
Given the fact that we all eat emotionally on some level or another, here are a few suggestions for making your meals more mindful, effective, grounding, relaxing and nutritionally beneficial:
- Accept emotional eating as a legitimate coping choice, not a coping failure.
- When eating to cope, have an appetizer of relaxation first. Take a few moments to notice your breath and smell your food. Preload on the fullness of the moment.
- Follow a predictable eating ritual, with clear starting and ending points. Begin with breathing, focus on your food throughout your meal and end with a healthy dose of self-acceptance.
- Use pattern-interruption techniques (such as eating with a non-dominant hand or using the wrong utensils) to keep your mind aware, guessing, present and focused during the mindful emotional eating episode.
- If you want to binge or "veg out," to regress into a bit of mindless "hand-to-mouth" trance then consider a harm-reduction strategy: mindfully choose what you will mindlessly eat. Instead of "inhaling" a bag of M&Ms, fill up on carrot sticks. The objection that carrot sticks don't taste as good as M&Ms is irrelevant here. Remember, this "hand-to-mouth" trance isn't about taste after all, but about the soothing activity of self-feeding.
- Know your comfort foods. Mindful emotional eating is an attempt at self-care. So, if you are going to try to self-medicate with food, you might as well use the right "medicine." Allow yourself to have exactly the experience of pleasure that you seek. Or risk filling up on what you don't want to eat and then feeling doubly disappointed.
- Indulge on quality, not quantity. Mindful emotional eating is not about meeting your caloric quota or about how much you eat but about how much you enjoy this moment of eating. So, as you purchase your comfort foods, pay the premium price, get the top-shelf foodstuffs. This additional financial investment will likely intrigue your tongue and help you slow down to mindfully notice this moment of self-care.
- When you eat to cope, just eat. The suggestion of "eating when you eat" is the backbone of all mindful eating know how. It is particularly important when it comes to mindful emotional eating. When you sit down to eat to cope, turn off the TV, put the reading aside. Or risk missing out on the very self-care moment you have so courageously allowed yourself to have. So, when you eat to cope, then just cope. If food is your therapist at this moment, then you have to show up for this session with yourself.
Building a new habit is a process. Give mindful emotional eating a try. Fine tune this self-care strategy until you find the sweet spot of moderation. As with most life-modification plans, self-acceptance is a healthy place to start. Remember: emotional eating doesn't have to lead to emotional overeating.
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Pavel Somov, Ph.D. writes about how to use mindfulness to overcome overeating, perfectionism and self-esteem problems. He is the author of "Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time" and "Present Perfect: A Mindfulness Approach to Letting Go of Perfectionism and the Need to Control." Find out more about Dr. Somov at www.eatingthemoment.com


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Florida socialite Jill Kelley, the "other woman" in the tangled David Petraeus sex scandal, has already had her life upended by the media and has lost her VIP privileges at MacDill Air Force Base, where she served as a military liason. Now, however, she's about to lose something else: South Korea has announced that it will strip Kelley of her coveted "honorary consul" title.
A senior Korean official said on Monday that Kelley was found to have used her title for personal gain, after a New York businessman complained that she had used it to solicit business, the CNN reports.
"It's not suitable to the status of honorary consul that [she] sought to be involved in commercial projects and peddle influence," deputy foreign minister Kim Kyou-hyun said on Monday, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap. "It's also inappropriate as honorary consul."
As the name suggests, the position carries no power or privileges. Appointed by the South Korean foreign minister, honorary consuls work as unofficial public relations agent between the two countries. There are 15 of them in the U.S., and each receives a token stipend of $2,500 a year.
(MORE: Jill Kelley: Military Liaison and Whistleblower in Petraeus Scandal)
But that's not how Kelley, 37, appears to have seen her status. Soon after the Petraeus scandal broke in early November, Kelley cited her "inviolability" as an honorary consul in a 911 call to Tampa police, asking them to remove members of the media from her property.
"You know, I don't know if by any chance, because I'm an honorary consul general, so I have inviolability, so they should not be able to cross my property," Kelley told a 911 dispatcher on Nov. 11, as reported by Bloomberg. "I don't know if you want to get diplomatic protection involved as well."
Kelley's silver Mercedes S500 carried official "Honorary Consul" license plates, which Florida provides to people who are not eligible for "special Consul Corps license plates [issued] by the United States Government," according to USA Today.
It's not the only honorary position that Kelley is accused of taking too seriously. As part of her now-revoked VIP privileges at MacDill, Kelley was given the title of "honorary ambassador" by U.S. Central Command. But one unnamed U.S. official told ABC News that Kelley would introduce herself to others as an "ambassador" — leaving off the word "honorary."
Kelley's complaints of harassing emails from Paula Broadwell exposed the secret affair between Petraeus and his biographer. The former four-star general apologized for the affair and resigned on November 9.
After reporting to a FBI agent the anonymous emails accusing her of being flirtatious toward Petraeus, Kelley became a key figure after further investigations revealed tens of thousands of inappropriate email exchanges between Kelley and Marine Gen. John Allen, the head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
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A pair of House Republicans stripped of their plum committee assignments lashed out Tuesday at the GOP leadership, suggesting they were punished for insisting on fealty to conservative principles.
NBC's Mark Murray reports House Speaker John Boehner has removed four House GOP committee chairmen in what's being described as a 'power move' against members who weren't 'team players.'
Reps. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., and Justin Amash, R-Mich., huddled with conservatives after the Republican Steering Committee removed them from their seats on the House Budget Committee.
"It's petty, it's vindictive and if you have any conservative principle, you'll be punished," Huelskamp said at a briefing for conservatives at the Heritage Foundation.
Huelskamp and Amash, along with Reps. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., and Walter Jones, R-N.C., lost their seats on the budget panel and House Financial Services Committee after the GOP conference determined they were "not team players," in the words of one Republican aide.
That action has prompted a minor outcry among conservatives, who fear that lawmakers who cross the GOP leadership will be punished for their transgressions. That fear coincides with mounting concern on the right that Republican leaders will cut a "fiscal cliff" deal with President Barack Obama that results in higher taxes, through either increased rates or eliminated deductions.
Amash and Huelskamp said that they learned of losing their spots on those committees by reading reports in the media; they said that no Republican leaders had notified them of the changes.
"I've received not a single call from anyone in leadership, not a single email," Amash said. "I've been not told about what committees I will be on."
The Michigan congressman, who distinguished himself as one of the more libertarian-minded Republican congressmen during his first term in the House, suggested that his independence on issues (including supporting cuts to defense spending) had led GOP leaders to look to "silence" him.
Huelskamp said the suspected a video he produced last week re-affirming his support for a pledge vowing to never raise taxes contributed to his loss of the committee spot. The Kansas conservative furthermore said he feared Republicans might cave on the issue of taxes.
"I think there's going to be an attempt to pass a tax increase through the U.S. House, in exchange for what?" he asked.


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Millennial homebuyers apparently are big fans of FHA-insured mortgages.
A new analysis of loans closed in January found that 35 percent of borrowers born between 1980 and 1999 opted for Federal Housing Administration mortgages, well above FHA's overall market share of 21 percent, according to mortgage technology company Ellie Mae.
Why the strong attraction? It's all about the total package of features.
Take, for example, two new homebuyers who chose FHA financing. Like many young couples, they carry a lot of student debt — both have master's degrees — and both now have well-paying jobs at tech-related companies in the Los Angeles area.
They don't have assets or the cash for a 10 percent down payment, but they wanted to buy quickly so that their monthly housing payments would contribute to their own nest egg, not a landlord's.
They consulted with a mortgage lender, who walked them through the pros and cons of the options. FHA turned out be the best answer on many fronts.
On down payment, FHA's minimum of 3.5 percent is low, but it's not best in class. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have programs requiring just 3 percent down, but they come with a variety of eligibility requirements, such as income cut-offs. Veterans Affairs and the US. Department of Agriculture loans allow for zero-down but are limited to veterans or specific geographic areas.
Credit scores are where the differences get really important for millennials, many of whom have middling scores. FHA accepts much-lower scores than Fannie and Freddie — even below 600. As a rule, when low-down-payment borrowers have FICO scores below 720, "FHA is going to give (them) the lowest payment."
On debt-to-income ratios (recurring monthly debt compared with monthly gross income), Fannie and Freddie typically won't go higher than 45 percent, while FHA can stretch up to 56 percent, provided there are "compensating" positive factors, such as extra-strong income.
One glaring drawback to FHA: Unlike the private mortgage insurance that comes with low-down-payment Fannie and Freddie loans, FHA premiums are non-cancelable for the life of the loan. But most first-time buyers don't keep their starter houses for long, so it's not likely to be a deal-killer.
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Family Lego Day -- The Lincoln Public
Library Youth Services Department will host another Family Lego Day
in the Annex on Saturday, Jan. 19, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Registration
begins Jan. 7 and will close at noon the day before the event,
unless all spaces are filled before that time. Reserving a spot is
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return on Jan. 22. This is a free program facilitated by Lincoln
Christian University and is available in the Annex on Mondays
through Thursdays, 3:30-4:45 p.m. Children in third through sixth
grade can attend on an as-needed basis for homework assistance from
LCU students. Please remember that children must be 8 years old to
be unchaperoned in the library.
The Lincoln Public Library
located at 725 Pekin St., with adult nonfiction and
reference materials in the historic Carnegie Building. The Annex, directly behind,
houses adult fiction and the
Youth Services Department.
All library events are free and
open to the public. Online, visit
Hours are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Tuesdays
and Thursdays, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; and Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
217-732-8878 for adult services and 217-732-5732 for youth services.
Upcoming events
Children's story times and craft classes will begin the winter
session the week of Feb. 11. Registration will start on Feb. 4. Age
groups for the story times are 6 months through 2 years old, 3- and
4-year-olds, and 5- to 7-year-olds. Craft classes are for ages 8-12.
More information will follow.
Holiday closing
The Lincoln Public Library District will be closed on Jan. 1, New
Year's Day.
Miss Lou's blog
Louella Moreland, youth services librarian,
has a
that can be accessed by linking through the library
website. She
lists the library's new children's and young adult books and
introduces library programs. Tell her your ideas and suggestions.
You can also view videos and pictures of library programs.
Circulation news
Paperback exchange -- A paperback book exchange for oversized
paperbacks is now available in the Annex.
Gift certificates -- Need a gift idea? You can purchase a
one-year library card for an individual or family living outside the
library district. The library will provide a gift certificate for
presenting, and the recipient can bring it in, along with a photo ID
and proof of address, to receive their very own library card.
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Book clubs -- The circulation desk in the Annex collects reading
lists for all the book clubs in the area. So if you can't remember
what you read or what you are supposed to read, you're covered. Drop
off your lists at the circulation desk or e-mail April Jensen,
circulation manager, at
Going away on a trip? The circulation staff can put a hold on any
outstanding requests you may have so you can get them when you
return. Just stop by and let the staff know your traveling dates.
Library on the Go
The library
website has a
link to a feature called
Library on the
Go. This is an online database of items accessible through many
devices --- computer, mobile-portable or e-readers. Log in with your Lincoln Public Library
District card number and search for books, music or movies to
download and enjoy.
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Saturday Morning Meditation
- Sat Feb 15th 2020
- 10:00 am
- 12:00 pm
- Booking not required
- No charge, suggested donation £10
Open to anyone who would like to learn meditation or deepen their existing practice. Usually a led body awareness meditation followed by a tea break and then a second mindfulness meditation session.
Here is Mark talking about what he got out of coming to drop-in classes at the WLBC.
usually Bodhilila


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FunStuff: Charlottesville events May 24 and beyond
Millions of steps
When you think of Irish dance, what comes to mind? The fast-tapping feet of Riverdance of course. And now, in its 17th year of touring in mammoth venues (like our biggie on Massie Road), Riverdance is on its farewell tour. So this could be your last chance to experience what 22 million people in over 350 venues across 40 countries have seen. It's Busby Berkeley meets Cecil B. DeMille with some of the best dancers in the world as they tell the story of Irish culture and immigration– through fast-paced, raucous dance.
–May 30, John Paul Jones Arena, 7:30pm, $31-62
Rock the JPA bizes
You've probably already heard about how the businesses near the closed-for-a-year Jefferson Park Avenue bridge have been harmed, right? Well, now's your chance to do something about it– and have fun in the process with the third monthly Cash Mob. Launched in February, Cash Mob Charlottesville is part of a grassroots national movement to make the cash registers ring at mom-and-pop businesses. This Saturday, the targets are that quintet of commerce huddled around the bridge: Wayside FasMart, Hoo's Brew, Wayside Barber Shop, Dürty Nelly's, and Wayside Deli. While the Saturday afternoon event is free, organizers urge attendees to make small purchases at each of the five businesses. The event kicks off with a 1pm march, and live music continues into the afternoon.
May 26, the businesses at the JPA Bridge, 1pm, sort of free
Is dreaming dangerous?
LiveArts is closing its spring season with a classic Russian melodrama. Ostensibly about circus, He Who Gets Slapped is an oversized production filled with "musical jokesters, lovesick lion-tamers, death-defying aerialists, and a handful of scam-artists all falling under the spell of an anonymous gentleman who arrives one day and demands to be made into a clown," according to the director's notes. Like much of what gets produced at LiveArts, there's something darker beneath the stilt-walkers, trapeze artists, and– naturally– the smile of those darn clowns (such as the ones shown here: Will Luckett, Kate Tooley, and Dan Sterlace). The play is staged most Wednesdays thru Sundays, and if you wanna talk back to the team after the show, attend the 2pm performance on Sunday, May 27.
thru June 9, LiveArts, various times, $14-$24.50
They have risen
Remember Ultravox, that techno-emo new wave band from the 1980s? That's who came to mind when checking out the eponymous album by Brighter Fires, a new project from Gopal Metro and Andy Deane, the duo who founded Bella Morte, the nationally-acclaimed act that put Charlottesville at the center of the goth map. They're also the guys who also put together The Dawning, the weekly goth-industrial dance party in the basement of the old Tokyo Rose restaurant. Now describing themselves as the vanguard of the modern dark rock scene, Brighter Fires readily concedes to strong influences from the 80s, 90s, and 00s. If you haven't already downloaded the new digital-only album at BrighterFires.com, you can get a taste Thursday night at the newest music venue in town (at the most ridiculously low cover charge we've seen), located in the National Linen Building at the corner of Mead and Market. Indie post-punkers Dead Fame and Stars and the Sea open the show.
May 24, Black Market Moto Saloon, 9pm, $3
Long in the truth
Thanks to the local library, Charlottesvillians can catch a rare public screening of the 2010 documentary that takes viewers on the ride of a lifetime, the Thoroughbred racing industry. It's a sport that created and destroyed fortunes, created and destroyed animals, and puts horses in such unusual places as Dubai (as shown here). The film, titled simply Thoroughbred, was produced by an award-winning filmmaker who lives in Charlottesville, Paul Wagner. "I hope that the film can help the sport reform itself and revitalize it a little bit for the future," Wagner told the Hook in an interview last year. The screening is at the main library at 201 East Market Street.
May 24, Jefferson-Madison Regional Library, 7pm, free
Mr. handsome and friend
If the idea of a rock duo conjures visions of Simon & Garfunkel, then think again because there's a rock duo in town with a raw and energetic feel. It's as if half of a famous foursome in Liverpool's Cavern Club got a hold of the songs they'd eventually write on their much-later White Album. Called Red Rattles, the duo has a garagey, fuzzed out– but cutely vulnerable– vibe, not to mention the gal-drawing advantage of a square-jawed guitarist named Luke Nutting, once at the center of short-lived but revered bluegrass act called 6 Day Bender. His compatriot, playing the skins, is David "Davey" Jacobs; and their first full-length album gets released with a show at that new music venue across from the gravestone shop on Market Street on Friday night. The Firetrucks may open.
May 25, Black Market Moto Saloon, 9pm, $5
Bring on da anguish (and joy)
Downtown's most richly decorated Victorian gothic church will soon resound with baroque sounds including the voice of a guest artist from the Washington-based Great Noise Ensemble. She is mezzo-soprano Tracy Cowart, who joins the Charlottesville baroque ensemble known as Three Notch'd Road in a night of "Joy & Anguish." They'll perform vocal and instrumental masterworks by Vivaldi and Handel in a Friday-night concert whose tickets, available at the door, are free for students. So grab a student and sit down under the Tiffany window to hear Handel's famous Water Music and recorder player Anne Timberlake crank out Vivaldi's famous concerto, La notte.
May 25, Christ Episcopal Church, 7:30pm, 0-$15
Bring on da Elmo
You know, it's just not every day that the real Elmo comes to your town. But Elmo wasn't satisfied with just one day in Charlottesville. He's decided to perform two days in a row. And get this, he'll do two shows each day. With friends! Yes, it's "1-2-3 Imagine!"– a high-energy musical designed to transport your small one to far away places. For instance, Elmo dances in the African rainforest. And his Muppet pal Ernie captains the high seas, and Ernie's uni-browed and pin-headed roommate Bert meets an octopus who has the blues. "It's a story of adventure and fun that teaches children they can be anyone, do anything, and go anywhere with the power of imagination." And it's coming to the big arena on Saturday and Sunday.
May 26 & 27, John Paul Jones Arena, various times, $15-52
Meet Gabriele Rausse
The man who quietly consulted on the creation of some of Central Virginia's top wineries including Barboursville, Trump, and his own private label, Gabriele Rausse is the star of the upcoming Saturday Open House at Tufton, aka the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants at Monticello. In a county where so many wine-tastings are priced like a meal, Tufton is offering up the man who has been called "the father of Virginia wine" at no cost. Of course, organizers may limit your quantity so that you can pay attention to the other names on the card: Peggy Cornett, who'll lead tours of the heirloom rose collection as well as beekeeper Paul Legrand. (Tufton is on the left side of Milton Road about two miles past Monticello.)
May 26, Tufton Farm, 10am-4pm (wine tasting 1-3pm), free
Get Steeled
The Valley's latest contribution to the Americana scene is coming over the mountain to Charlottesville's premiere indie club for a sit-down show exploring the territories "between blues and bluegrass, old-time sing-alongs and foot-stompin' fiddle tunes." It's The Steel Wheels, whose lyrical skill has won praise from such diverse sources as NPR and Blue Ridge Outdoors, the latter which called them "Shenandoah Valley's newest, and brightest, songwriting force." Coming off an impressive festival circuit that's taken them from Floydfest to Atlanta Dogwood, their Thursday night Charlottesville show is billed as a CD release party for their latest, Lay Down, Lay Low. Opener: The Honey Dewdrops.
May 24, The Southern, 7pm doors/8pm show, $15
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American Idol finals tonight here and on TV -
10 local singers com
10 finalists compete tonight at Paramount 6pm
The Teetotallers perform Tuesday, May 29th at 7:00 p.m. at Cville Coffee Stage Cafe in Charlottesville
$20 at the door
Three Masters of Traditional Irish Music coming to Charlottesville
Three of the world's most accomplished players of Irish traditional music - Martin Hayes (fiddle),John Doyle (guitar) and Kevin Crawford(flute/whistle) - will bring the "pure drop" toC'ville Coffee (1301 Harris St. Charlottesville, VA) on Tuesday, May 29th, 7:00 p.m. The trio performs under the name the Teetotallers.
This exciting group of virtuosos began by chance when Hayes, Doyle and Crawford found themselves on stage together at the 2010 Sebastopol Celtic Festival in California. The chemistry clicked at that informal session and a new side project, the Teetotallers, was born. With an Ireland tour under their belts, this trad supergroup has worked out a show that will feature melodic, Clare-style instrumental tunes (courtesy of Hayes and Crawford) and a distinctive group of songs chosen by John Doyle. Look for an album later this year.
The performance on Tuesday is presented by Harvest Shelter Foundation, Blue Ridge Irish Music School and Culture Ireland.
Tickets are $20 at the door.


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Mark Thomas
If you don't have time to make your own hummus, buy some at the market or specialty foods store, and mix in chipotle chilies and cumin to taste.
- Yield
- Makes 20 servings
- 2 15-ounce cans garbanzo beans (chickpeas), drained
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons tahini (sesame seed paste)*
- 3 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 1/2 teaspoons minced canned chipotle chilies**
- 1 large garlic clove, minced
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1 4-ounce jar sliced pimientos in oil, drained
- 1/3 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 2 6-ounce packages roasted-garlic bagel chips
- Reserve 3 tablespoons garbanzo beans for garnish. Blend remaining garbanzo beans and next 7 ingredients in processor until smooth. Add pimientos; process, using on/off turns, until pimientos are coarsely chopped. Transfer hummus to medium bowl. Stir in cilantro. Season hummus to taste with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with reserved garbanzo beans. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill. Bring to room temperature before serving.) Accompany with bagel chips.
- *Sold at Middle Eastern markets, natural foods stores and some supermarkets. **Chipotle chilies canned in a spicy tomato sauce, sometimes called adobo, are available at Latin American markets, specialty foods stores and some supermarkets.


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PAWSitively Stress Free Finals Week
Event Description
Join Health Promotion and Wellness and Milner Library and get PAWSitively Stress Free! Take a study or work break to pet certified therapy dogs, get a FREE chair massage, and enjoy other stress relieving activities! Activities are held on the Third Floor of Milner Library.
Illinois State University students report stress as one of their top impediments to academic success. And what time of the year is more stressful than finals? Research shows that for some, just a few minutes petting a dog can lower the body's level of cortisol–the stress hormone. This lowers your blood pressure and helps you feel relaxed, which will allow you to focus more on studying and projects.
If you will need special accommodations, please contact the event organizer.


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It is unrealistic to think that fruitarianism proposes an immediate total eradication of such needless harm and death, but I do see it as a method to greatly minimize such, and over time as the consciousness of humankind expands toward its spiritual potential, I do not believe that such a goal is at all unrealistic.
My vision is to see the whole world embrace this concept. I believe that once humankind has inevitably done so, other species (YES!) will naturally follow suit.. So instead of looking up to other species as examples as to how we should eat and live (Sadly most often the case today), other species will be guided and influenced by us, and ultimately the chaotic bloody balance of nature as it currently exists, will evolve into a harmonious peaceful balance where all species will be able to live their lives without fear of this insane dog eat dog, kill or be killed competitive ruthless insanity.. survival of the fittest will be replaced by mutual respect and cooperation. I by no means propose to have all the answers, far from it, but I do trust that there are no problems without solutions and that as we continue to evolve, the path will become ever clearer. Ultimately fruitarianism proposes a "Live and let live" solution.
What I don't believe should be part of fruitarianism, is calorie counting, focusing on carbohydrates, electrolytes, minerals, vitamins etc etc.. I think these factors ultimately stem from "FEAR", and a clear lack of trust and faith in fruit. Most people are truly hoodwinked into following this pseudoscience side of eating, and although they themselves have no real idea what proteins or calories really are, they still wield the terms as if they were personally very familiar with them. Lying to themselves and others in doing so.
Fruitarianism is about letting go of such fears, trusting in the goodness of fruit, living as simply as one can, having faith, (there's always room for improvement!) eating when hungry, drinking when thirsty, resting and sleeping when tired. It is not about following fashion based on greed and consumerism, but about walking barefoot to regain contact with the earth, being naked, weather permitting, whenever one can do so without victimization, letting ones hair and beard, when applicable, grow naturally, not defacing ones body with tattoos, piercing, make up and chemical cleaners, certainly not undergoing pointless surgery. Rather it concerns the understanding that the medical industry is a multi billion dollar business that ultimately does NOT have our best interests at heart. Understanding that the body will heal itself from pretty much anything if we follow the rules of simplicity and fruit eating.
I believe it is also about getting closer to nature, about getting our hands covered in soil as we plant and care for new fruit trees. Not competitiveness, not Alpha-male centred and dominated society, but mutual support and understanding of one another, and using our energy toward the ultimate vision of Eden and personal spiritual growth.
Fruit has not only the ability to cleanse us both internally physically and mentally, but also applied externally is great for washing our bodies, as well as making us more spiritually aware.
As always, I feel I have barely scratched the surface, and the final peace and tranquillity that will reign will be beyond all our expectations.


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Quote:11) Pharmaceuticals
We are aware that some seekers who find this community have had experience with psychiatric medications. Such medication has been beneficial in many cases in addressing the needs of those individuals. We ask that members be sensitive to the variant needs of all body complexes and respectful of current diagnoses. Please do not to dissuade other members from their current psychiatric treatments.
The Confederation has expressed the importance of remembering that allopathic healers are, indeed, healers. We encourage an open discussion of all experiences in the context of spirituality, but ask that a certain sensitivity be added when speaking about someone else's experiences with taking psychiatric medication. It is possible to share your personal experience with such treatments without directly discouraging another member from their own treatments.
Quote:17) ID Theft
Revealing your identity is not a required for participation on Bring4th. However, intentionally misrepresenting your identity in order to manipulate or deceive is prohibited and may result in an immediate ban. (Please, do not pretend to be somebody else.)
Quote:many times i think. people do not really help certain persons by encouraging and reinforcing their "conditions" such as dissociation, schizophrenia, autism for example, instead I feel it ultimately prevents these persons from healing and evolving!
So I would really suggest to maybe elaborate this a little more!
(06-01-2017, 04:59 AM)Agua del Cielo Wrote: Dear Austin,
although I'm not being active here anymore, I would like to offer some thoughts on the "Healing Subforum".
I like this idea very very much, in fact, the lack of interest in this crucial area displayed by many was the reason to end my participation.
In my experience and opinion, the spiritual path is to a large extent all about healing and for a long time not about much else!
Quote:However, I would like offer some aspects, that maybe havent been taken into account:
I would rather place this in "spiritual development". This would be a statement and a constant reminder, that spiritual evolution depends mostly on healing.
It would also constantly question the healing-avoidance which is very common in the beginning of the path, just in a subtle but i think effective way!
Putting it into the "health" category has a danger of people viewing it just as another "minor" aspect,like "do I eat this or that"...if you know what i mean.
Ultimately all health issues are spiritual healing issues, i absolutely agree here. But i would not expect people constantly denying and avoiding emotional healing to even take this into account, no matter how clearly it has been stated in the Ra material!
Quote:My second point is about the guidelines, concerning "tough love".
From what I experienced on the forums, denial is a very huge obstacle for many. And I strongly believe, that many times its the only way to be very very clear in pointing this out (instead of covering it in love and light phrases).
This happened very recently in a thread (C_A's thread) and I think, this was EXACTLY what was needed.
In fact, many times i think. people do not really help certain persons by encouraging and reinforcing their "conditions" such as dissociation, schizophrenia, autism for example, instead I feel it ultimately prevents these persons from healing and evolving!
So I would really suggest to maybe elaborate this a little more!
Quote:Another thing is the "diagnosis" part.
Honestly, this is not very clear to me. What exactly would you view as a diagnose?
Considering the physical body? Or pointing out deeper mechanisms ofthe psyche that are most likely in play?
A further clarification would be helpful!
(06-04-2017, 07:32 AM)Agua del Cielo Wrote: I would suggest, additionaly, to make that forum accessible by logged-in members only.
I understand that the downside of this would be, that many people interested in healing would not be able to access the information shared tjere.
On the other and more important side we should be aware, that ultimately it requires a lot of courahe to share sentitive information when asking for help. There will be a lot of shame, fear, judgement and the likes involved.
I believe nobody would be willing to share this in an open forum!
I participated in forum dedicated to sexual abuse quite some time. They even had several levels of access, which was a very good solution!
Taking into account the fact, that the roots of blockages/distortion/ being-un-heal ultimately always date back to ones very early years, this would indicate that we are actually dealing with children that need a safe protected space to express!
(06-01-2017, 04:59 AM)Agua del Cielo Wrote: My second point is about the guidelines, concerning "tough love".
From what I experienced on the forums, denial is a very huge obstacle for many. And I strongly believe, that many times its the only way to be very very clear in pointing this out (instead of covering it in love and light phrases).
This happened very recently in a thread (C_A's thread) and I think, this was EXACTLY what was needed.
In fact, many times i think. people do not really help certain persons by encouraging and reinforcing their "conditions" such as dissociation, schizophrenia, autism for example, instead I feel it ultimately prevents these persons from healing and evolving!
So I would really suggest to maybe elaborate this a little more!
(06-02-2017, 01:46 PM)GentleWanderer Wrote: This new subforum on healing is a excellent idea i hope it will be fruitful.
On a more mundane level i wish it was possible to change the coloring of the forum. Have you ever thougth about it ?
Having a green design , heart based design or blue design for open communication could help create a nice, warm ambiance suitable to studying and sharing.
(06-05-2017, 07:00 AM)SMC Wrote: And criticism of psychiatric drugs; but use (and promotion) of recreational drugs is a double standard and illogical.
(06-07-2017, 12:44 PM)xise Wrote: (06-05-2017, 07:00 AM)SMC Wrote: And criticism of psychiatric drugs; but use (and promotion) of recreational drugs is a double standard and illogical.
I haven't often seen a promotion of recreational drugs by anti-pharma proponents, but I agree there are logical issues with those who promote the view as you describe.
I have seen a promotion of non-processed, plant-based herbs - for healing and for spiritual seeking - over using synthesized pharma drugs. One may not agree with such promotion, but it's based on a pretty clear logical line about using natural, non-processed herbs for healing/seeking purposes instead of artificial chemicals. There are certainly counterarguments to such a view, but I'm not convinced that a double standard/ it's illogical criticism is one of them.
(06-08-2017, 05:13 AM)SMC Wrote: The whole natural/artificial thing - it's an oversimplification.
People who support only "natural" or only "conservative" medicines BOTH irritate me - because they're black and white thinkers and their opinionatedness hurts people who need (or have found) help.
(06-08-2017, 01:11 PM)Agua del Cielo Wrote: Not sure if the "bias" Diana spoke of is a bias for psychedelics, if so, the bias would be for very obvious reasons.
We all miss "home" and if theres something that at least temporarily brings you closer, this is understandably quite seductive.
(06-08-2017, 04:13 PM)Diana Wrote: Yes, that's what I meant. And it is understandable. However, it may be taken into consideration the toll on the body (including the mind and energy field).
(06-09-2017, 02:52 AM)Agua del Cielo Wrote: Yes, true, but I doubt someone 20 years old an hungry for "connectio" will ever consider this at all
No matter what the downsides are.
(06-09-2017, 08:04 AM)sjel Wrote: (06-09-2017, 02:52 AM)Agua del Cielo Wrote: Yes, true, but I doubt someone 20 years old an hungry for "connectio" will ever consider this at all
No matter what the downsides are.
Quote:Scientists studying the brain have discovered that the organ operates on up to 11 different dimensions, creating multiverse-like structures that are "a world we had never imagined."
By using an advanced mathematical system, researchers were able to uncover architectural structures that appears when the brain has to process information, before they disintegrate into nothing.
Their findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, reveals the hugely complicated processes involved in the creation of neural structures, potentially helping explain why the brain is so difficult to understand and tying together its structure with its function.
Quote:In the latest study, researchers honed in on the neural network structures within the brain using algebraic topology—a system used to describe networks with constantly changing spaces and structures. This is the first time this branch of math has been applied to neuroscience.
"Algebraic topology is like a telescope and microscope at the same time. It can zoom into networks to find hidden structures—the trees in the forest—and see the empty spaces—the clearings—all at the same time," study author Kathryn Hess said in a statement.
In the study, researchers carried out multiple tests on virtual brain tissue to find brain structures that would never appear just by chance. They then carried out the same experiments on real brain tissue to confirm their virtual findings.
They discovered that when they presented the virtual tissue with stimulus, groups of neurons form a clique. Each neuron connects to every other neuron in a very specific way to produce a precise geometric object. The more neurons in a clique, the higher the dimensions.
Quote:In some cases, researchers discovered cliques with up to 11 different dimensions.
The structures assembled formed enclosures for high-dimensional holes that the team have dubbed cavities. Once the brain has processed the information, the clique and cavity disappears.
"The appearance of high-dimensional cavities when the brain is processing information means that the neurons in the network react to stimuli in an extremely organized manner," said one of the researchers, Ran Levi.
"It is as if the brain reacts to a stimulus by building then razing a tower of multi-dimensional blocks, starting with rods (1D), then planks (2D), then cubes (3D), and then more complex geometries with 4D, 5D, etc. The progression of activity through the brain resembles a multi-dimensional sandcastle that materializes out of the sand and then disintegrates," he said.
Henry Markram, director of Blue Brain Project, said the findings could help explain why the brain is so hard to understand. "The mathematics usually applied to study networks cannot detect the high-dimensional structures and spaces that we now see clearly," he said.
"We found a world that we had never imagined. There are tens of millions of these objects even in a small speck of the brain, up through seven dimensions. In some networks, we even found structures with up to eleven dimensions."
The findings indicate the brain processes stimuli by creating these complex cliques and cavities, so the next step will be to find out whether or not our ability to perform complicated tasks requires the creation of these multi-dimensional structures.
In an email interview with Newsweek , Hess says the discovery brings us closer to understanding "one of the fundamental mysteries of neuroscience: the link between the structure of the brain and how it processes information."
By using algebraic topology, she says, the team was able to discover "the highly organized structure hidden in the seemingly chaotic firing patterns of neurons, a structure which was invisible until we looked through this particular mathematical filter."
Hess says the findings suggest that when we examine brain activity with low-dimensional representations, we only get a shadow of the real activity taking place. This means we can see some information, but not the full picture. "So, in a sense our discoveries may explain why it has been so hard to understand the relation between brain structure and function," she explains.
"The stereotypical response pattern that we discovered indicates that the circuit always responds to stimuli by constructing a sequence of geometrical representations starting in low dimensions and adding progressively higher dimensions, until the build-up suddenly stops and then collapses: a mathematical signature for reactions to stimuli.
"In future work we intend to study the role of plasticity—the strengthening and weakening of connections in response to stimuli—with the tools of algebraic topology. Plasticity is fundamental to the mysterious process of learning, and we hope that we will be able to provide new insight into this phenomenon," she added.
(06-04-2017, 04:47 PM)xise Wrote: You can be truthful and clear without using hard words about their issues, and people sometimes won't get the message because that is their free will choice to continue to experience the distortion. On the other hand, you can be truthful using hard words, and force people to confront their issue, usually when they are unwilling and truly not ready for it.
(06-04-2017, 04:47 PM)xise Wrote: Plenty of people want to rant and vent about their issue, without really desiring to find the root cause. Yes, even spiritual people. Yes, even actively positively polarizing people. After all, there are countless issues for any one entity to address, yet it is their free will choice to focus on a small subset of them at any time.
(06-04-2017, 04:47 PM)xise Wrote: Often, with hard love, I see frustration empower the harsh truth (I've definitely seen this in myself giving harsh/hard/tough love to others), and the frustration is from the hard lover's lack of acceptance of the distorted person's free will decision to 'vent' about their issue, but not desiring a true interest in confronting or resolving it. By employing hard truth after non-hard clear truth has been employed, you are actively disregarding the other's entity's choice to continue to not confront the matter in front of them. Denial, by the other, and their choice to remain in continued denial is ok and completely acceptable!


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Mayor Michael Bloomberg calls for legislation to make New York the first U.S. city to require stores to conceal tobacco products. Watch his statement.
If New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gets his way, stores won't be able to publicly display tobacco products and will have to keep cigarettes under the counter or behind curtains.
The legislation announced Monday is the latest public-health crackdown by the mayor, whose ban on super-sized sugary soft drinks was shot down by a judge last week.
The proposed law would "prohibit display of tobacco products" in most retail shops, Bloomberg said. "Such displays suggest smoking is a normal activity and invite young people to experiment with tobacco."
He said it would be the first of its kind in the nation.
A second law would impose new rules to make it harder to sell smuggled cigarettes.
"These laws would protect New Yorkers, especially young and impressionable New Yorkers," Bloomberg said at a Queens hospital, adding that a decline in youth smoking has stalled out with about 8 percent of young people lighting up.
The New York Association of Convenience Stores, which has 1,600 members, called the proposed ban on displays "absurd."
"I can't think of another business that is selling legal products that is being forced to hide them from public view," said association president Jim Calvin. "Businesses have a fundamental right to communicate with customers."
He said he hoped the City Council would reject the bill after it's introduced later this week. If it passes, the National Association of Tobacco Outlets predicts it will be overturned by the courts.
"Retailers are responsible business people that go to great lengths to prevent sales to minors, and there are First Amendment protections that extend to advertising," said Tom Briant, executive director of the group.
"You're talking about a basic right under the Constitution. If you do this with cigarettes and tobacco products, what else is going to have to be out of view? Wine and spirits? It's a very slippery slope."
After the town of Haverstraw in upstate New York passed a similar ordinance last year, retail and tobacco groups sued and the board repealed it.
Sunny Parikh, who has operated a Midtown Manhattan newsstand for 20 years, wondered where he would put the cigarettes he sells, which are in slots at the top of his cramped kiosk. He also questioned whether the initiative would reduce youth smoking.
"If kids want to smoke, they'll find a way," he said.
City officials, though, said the point of the display ban isn't to prevent kids from buying cigarettes, which is already illegal; the idea is that lowering exposure to the products reduces the chances a young person will try smoking in the first place.
Bloomberg has made public-health campaigns a hallmark of his administration and boasted that life expectancy in the city is up three years since 2001. He has also crusaded against salt in restaurant foods and junk food in vending machines and required calorie counts on fast-food menus.
A new policy sharply limiting the sale of 16-ounce sugary drinks was supposed to take effect last week, but a judge put a stop to it, ruling it was "arbitrary and capricious."
Bloomberg confident NYC will win appeal on soda ban
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, seen here holding a super-size soda cup while promoting a crackdown on sugary drinks, has announced a new public-health campaign to shield cigarettes from public view.
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Fissure Studios is currently looking for some inspired and devoted C# developers for our next-generation interactive media library, the Atomic Engine. This will be an all purpose assembly for game and simulation development. For a more complete list of features, you will need to go check-out our forum, (under Announcements->Welcome!):
The forum has recently went under some heavy construction and most of the posts were lost. It might look empty, but we are still (obviously) active. Anyways, we are looking for a couple of developers who can relate to ONE of the following:
* Have good knowledge of C# and code design. This developer must be able to understand C# at minimum, not just know how to use C#, but look-at and understand how the end-user will use the code.
* OpenGL, DirectX9 programming knowledge and understand the math required to render 3D objects.
* Advanced math such as, real-time physics, vectors, matrices, ray-casting or collision detection.
* Artificial Intelligence such as, neural networks, fuzzy logic, reaction tables or self-scripting.
* Shader development for GLSL, HLSL or Cg shaders.
* Content (de)serialization for textures or models.
* Content creation tools for animations, images, 3D scenes or other game related assets.
* Web-developer for forum maintenance and website creation.
Now, to give us acknowledgment that you are interested you should (easier) sign-up at our forum and send me a PM (qc.zackf) or post a thread in the 'Help Needed' topic in the forum.
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And I will contact you with the same day or the next. Also please include some simple details of what you offer. If you don't relate to anything above or just getting into game-development (not C#) and still want to include yourself, by all means contact us (we will enjoy teaching you what we know )
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A substitute teacher at Halethorpe Elementary School in Maryland is being investigated for allegedly giving fourth-grade students lap dances and kissing them on the cheek. Authorities are looking into the matter after some of the parents filed a police report.
According to the Baltimore Sun, one of the parents, Sandra Zook, said the female teacher "held my son's hands above his head, she was sitting on a chair, pulled him toward her, crossed her legs over his legs and kissed him on the cheek twice."
Zook added that the teacher then "proceeded to sit on him and bounce up and down on his lap."
Another parent, Laura Glover, said the teacher embarrassed her ten-year-old daughter during a "clapping game" in which students were asked to identify body parts, including nipples and breasts.
Two of the students left the classroom and told the school's guidance counselor about what was going on. The guidance counselor and the school's assistant principal went to the classroom and immediately removed the teacher.
"We simply will not tolerate any inappropriate behavior by staff, and an investigation is ongoing. We are still gathering information on the teacher in question, but we can say these are the first allegations we know of against this individual," Brandon Oland, Baltimore County Public Schools spokesman, said.
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Kim Kardashian won't be wearing that $4 million stolen ring anytime soon — or ever for that matter — because authorities have told her there's virtually no chance of retrieving it.
Sources close to the investigation tell us Kim's legal team has been briefed by Parisian cops on the big break in the robbery case — rounding up 17 suspects — and they have made it clear the only way she'll ever see the bling again is in photos.
The cops say most diamonds the size of Kim's are immediately shipped off to Antwerp's diamond district in Belgium and then quickly disappear.
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Hello Isildilmë
I'm from Austria and I would be very happy if you could translate this text for me. It should be an inspiration for my tattoo.
"When we fail to see the beauty in every tree, we are no better than humans"
It should be please in Tengwar Annatar and Tengwar Tehtar.
I find this statement very beautiful and it is from a playing card of Magic the Gathering (Bountiful Harvest) I would greatly appreciate of a translation and thank you in advance for your efforts.


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The mammals (Lipotes vexillifer) is probably the rarest cetacean in existence; human activity severely threatens this dolphin (4). It is a very shy and graceful freshwater dolphin, with a rather stocky body, roughly the size of an adult human (3). It is bluish-grey in colour becoming whitish on the underside, but seems white or greyish from a distance (3). In common with other river dolphins, it has a very long, narrow beak with a slightly upturned tip, and small eyes placed high up on the face (2). The dorsal fin is positioned low on the body and is triangular in shape, and the flippers are rounded (2) (5). Females tend to be larger than males (2). The baiji is the only species in this genus, the name of which, Lipotes, derives from the Greek for 'left behind', referring to its limited range (3).
Baijis have long been recognised as one of the world's rarest mammals, and are extremely shy animals, making observation of them in the wild extremely difficult. Consequently, relatively little is known of the species (6). They are most active through the night from early evening to early morning (3). They tend to live in small groups of three to four individuals, with the largest group ever seen comprising of 16 (2). A recent study found that they often swim with finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides), the only other cetacean in the Yangtze River, which is also threatened (classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List) (1) (6). Baijis break the surface of the water without creating a splash and breathe smoothly (2). They feed on a wide range of freshwater fish (2), which are eaten whole (7).
It is thought that breeding occurs in the first part of the year, with most births peaking between February and April (2).
In the past, this river dolphin's range extended from the mouth of the Yangtze River, China, upstream to 50 kilometres above the Gezhouba Dam (1). More recently, the mammals was found only in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River (6), between two large tributary lakes, Dongting and Poyang (1). In 1997, just 17 individuals of this extremely rare species were seen; in 1999 this number fell to just four (6). During an expedition in November and December 2006 an intensive search was undertaken in the Yangtze River, but scientist failed to find a single baiji. It is now thought that the baiji may be extinct(4).
The baiji is an exclusive freshwater species (2). Within the Yangtze River, they are attracted to areas where tributaries meet the river, particularly where there are sand bars with large eddies (3) (6).
The baiji is classified as Critically Endangered (CR) on the IUCN Red List (1).
The Yangtze River is one of the world's busiest waterways (3), and is subject to a great range of human pressures that have had a devastating effect on the mammals. The main threat causing the decline of this species in recent years is illegal fishing using electricity, which has accounted for 40 percent of known deaths. The dolphins have also become caught in fishing gear, and engineering explosions used to keep navigation channels open are another source of mortality. Vessels carrying pesticides occasionally overturn, causing poisoning of the ecosystem, resulting in further deaths (6). An additional source of pollution comes from the 15.6 billion cubic meters of wastewater discharged into the Yangtze every year, 80 percent of which is not treated. A huge volume of boat traffic uses the river; noise levels are high and boat strikes a possibility. Furthermore, the banks of the Yangtze have been greatly modified in order to prevent flooding of adjacent land; such projects have great impacts on the ecosystem, both during construction and from the resulting habitat changes. Dam construction has been shown to reduce the availability of fish, which is exacerbated by over-fishing and pollution. The recent construction of the infamous Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam in the world, is likely to affect fish stocks and natural flooding patterns (2). For many years the baiji population is thought to have been very small, which in itself may have caused serious problems; small populations often suffer low genetic fitness and are often less able to adapt to environmental changes (2).
In Chinese folklore, the mammals is dubbed 'Goddess of the Yangtze', a beneficent animal once revered by the fishing people of the river. The species was declared a National Treasure of China and has been a protected species since 1975 (3). However, this had very little effect on the population, which continued to decline despite conservation efforts and legal protection. It was thought that the only chance to save the species from extinction would be to remove all of the surviving individuals from the Yangtze into the 'Baiji Semi-natural Reserve' which was created in 1992 (6). However, since the unsuccessful search for any surviving baijis in 2006, it is unlikely that a captive breeding programme will now ever be possible (4). The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has now classified the baiji as Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct); it cannot be definitively classified as Extinct until further surveys are undertaken (1). Sadly, it seems that this goddess of the Yangtze will be the first cetacean species to become extinct in modern times as a result of human activities (5).
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There are already several quotes from the Federalist on the pages of its authors. It might be a good idea to either merge those quotes here or to merge these quotes there. Which would be better? ~ Ningauble 14:01, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
- My opinion is that having this page is a good thing - and I would move the quotes from the individual pages (assuming they are not already shown here) and having a "See also" link to this page on each of the authors' pages. ~ UDScott 18:28, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
- I was aware of the other quotes under the original authors, but this page brings the majesty of the three together, You can't have enough Founding Fathers... In this case, perhaps, a little "redundancy" is a good thing. --Oracleofottawa 00:32, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
- While I was reading the text, I was amazed that in the late 18th century, in the middle of no where, there existed 13 independent states. A handful of extraordinary men (I believe Divinely Inspired..) dreamed of something better. What they wrought, in the end, with all its faults, was a bright shinning point of light in the world. Today in the 21st century there are about 220 independent states... Perhaps it is time that this happened again? --Oracleofottawa 00:54, 9 March 2011 (UTC)


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Developer Staffing Survey: Needs Outstrip Supply, September 04, 2012 An InformationWeek survey shows IT managers expect that developers with the needed skills will be hard to find for a while yet.
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Warwickshire's best kept secret for road runners, Draycote Water offers smooth, flat road with stunning reservoir and countryside views.
Running alongside the water, using dam wall pathways and a perimeter service road, you'll find mesmerising views of nature trails, wildlife and boats on the water as you notch up mile after mile. Some short inclines and downhill stretches keep the landscape changing around you, so you'll not get tired of your surroundings, even as you dig in to the later stages of a race.
You'll feel amazing energy from your fellow runners as you make your way around the Water towards a glorious home straight, where we'll be waiting with a finishers' medal, goody bag and a souvenir item of training kit - anything from a technical t-shirt to cold weather headgear.
Situated three miles south of Rugby and less than 15 minutes from the M1, this secluded site is gloriously peaceful and breathtaking in all seasons.
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When: Sunday 9 August 2020 at 09:45.
Where: Draycote Water, Kites Hardwick, Warwickshire. CV23 8AB.
Pricing (Half/10K): £17/15 Unaffiliated, £15/13 Affiliated, £0 Gold Members.
Entry on the Day: Subject to a £2 surcharge (cash only, subject to availability).
Age Requirements (Half/10K): Participants must be aged 17/15 or over on the day of the race.
Registration: From 08:45 to 09:30.
Race Numbers: For collection at registration on the day only, numbers will not be posted. To be fastened to the front of your top using safety pins provided at registration, your number should be visible at all times. Your timing chip is attached to the back of your number and should not be removed.
Timing: Chip-timed.
Spectators: Spectators are best placed around the finish area where they will see runners pass at the end of each of the the part/full laps.
Licensing: This race will be licensed with UK Athletics and the results submitted to Run Britain within a week of the race.
Pacers: Pacers will not be offered at this race.
Bag Drop: Whilst we recommend bringing as little as possible, you can leave your belongings with us while you race using the tear-off baggage strip on your race number, collecting after you finish by presenting your race number.
Toilets: There are free toilets in The Visitor Centre for use throughout the event.
Race Marshals: Marshals will be present on the course throughout the race.
Distance Markers: The route will be clearly indicated with arrows, tape and distance markers where necessary.
Water Stations: There will be water stations on the route at regular intervals at which water will be provided in recyclable plastic cups.
Goody Bag: All runners will receive a goody bag on finishing the race.
Refreshments: Refreshments will be available in the Waterside Restaurant, above the Visitor Centre, throughout the event.
Changing/Showers: There are no changing rooms or showers at this event.
Lost Property: Lost property from an event will be kept for one month. If unclaimed, or ownership cannot be determined, lost property items will be donated to charity.
Results: Results will be uploaded live to our website (internet connection permitting) and, where possible/practical, timing print-outs will be available at the race. In all cases, results will be communicated to all pre-registered participants within 24 hours of the event.
Medals: All finishers will receive a medal on completing the race.
Prizes: Prizes will be awarded to the top three runners overall and the top runner in each of the veteran categories (V40/V50/V60/V70) for both males and females. Where possible, we will endeavour to present individual race prizes as soon as validated on the day.
Getting to the Race
Directions: Please visit the reservoir website for further information on getting to the race.
Parking: On-site parking is available, please visit the reservoir website for further information and current charges.
Further Information
Buggies/Pushchairs: This race is suitable for runners with buggies/pushchairs. You will be asked to sign a disclaimer, start at the back of the field and be vigilant of other runners overtaking during the race.
Wheelchair Users: This race is suitable for wheelchair users. You may be asked to start at the front of the field 5-10 minutes before the scheduled start time and be vigilant of other runners overtaking during the race.
Earphones/Headphones: Noise-cancelling earphones/headphones are prohibited and whilst we discourage the use of other earphones/headphones at this event, participants choosing to use them should ensure they are set to a minimum volume such that instructions from marshals or other race officials can be clearly understood. We reserve the right to disqualify participants who cannot hear instructions as a result of their use.
Event Time-Limit: Whilst there is no strict time-limit for this race, in order that we adhere to the restrictions imposed by the venue hire agreement, it may be necessary for us to begin deconstruction of the registration/finish area(s) after approximately 3 hours to facilitate the removal of all equipment from the premises by the agreed time.
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